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actual number, a difference so small that it would have
effected no appreciable alteration in the birth and death
rates.
Births.—The births of 1,153 males and 1,104
females were recorded by the registrar during the year
1880. The total number of births registered during the
year was consequently 2,257, and the birth-rate in a
population of 54,285 (which is shown elsewhere to have
been the actual mean number of inhabitants in Eastern
Battersea during the year) will be at the rate of 41.17 per
thousand persons per annum. This agrees in a remarkable
manner with the birth-rate of the past three census
periods, when the birth-rate has also been approximately
42 per thousand, and this birth-rate has been employed
as the basis upon which the population has been estimated
between these periods.
Natural increase of population.—During the year
1880, 2,257 persons were born in the sub-district, and
1,030 deaths were registered. The numerical difference
between the births and deaths is called the natural
increase, and amounted to 1,227 during the year. As the
average annual increase of population during the decade
has been 2,948, the difference in the numbers must
have been the result of the immigration of 1,721 persons,
or thereabouts. Prolific as the inhabitants of the subdistrict
have been, a birth-rate scarcely varying from 42
per thousand having been shewn elsewhere to have
prevailed throughout the decade 1871-81, this enormous
increase is chiefly due to the influx of fresh inhabitants,
and is the direct result of the great number of habitations
constructed yearly.
Mortality.—The annexed tabular statement of the
cause of death, together with the age and social
dition of the deceased, will be found to be of great
statistical value:—